Improvement in ear-muffs



C- SEDGWICK.

EAR-MUFF.

Patented May 23,1876.

Inventor IL PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D. O-

TUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. V v

CHARLES SEDGWIOK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES H. NASH, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT-IN EAR-MUFFS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 77,755, dated May 23, 1876; application filed v e September- 30, 1875.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES SEDGWIGK, of

the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Ear-Mud, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a new manufacture of ear-muffs, the same being ear-mufl's knitted or woven, which attach directly to the ear, produced in the complete form of the finished article in one piece, as an improvement upon those which have hitherto been made of cloth cut in several pieces and contrived in a kind of cup or pocket-shaped device on a wire frame.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a muff, such as I propose to make, as applied to the ear of a person, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the inner side.

The waste of material involved in making these articles of cloth is a very considerable proportion of the stock, owing,v to the oval form of the parts, also the large hole in the middle portion of one of the sides, from which the pieces out, though small, are large proportionately to the parts of which the mud is made.

These muffs are commonly made of an outer web-of fine cloth and an inner web of lining, thus doubling the amount of waste that would be incurred if made of one web only; but, as it is necessary to use two webs, because one of sufficient thickness for the necessary warmth would'be too clumsy, particularly 011 account of the welts of the seam around the edges by tension as to make them of suflicient thickness to afford the necessary warmth with one loss of material, which can be saved by producing them in the exact finished shape by the knitting process, I propose to do so by knitting the outer portion B first, beginning: at the middle and making a circular fabric until the requisite width is obtained; then elongating,to make the upper and lower extensions, by knitting forward and backward thereon till the required shape is produced; then knitting all the way around, but narrowing; and then turning the fabric back in the inside of the outer portion, producing the inner fabric G and terminating at the hole, when the edge may be turned over an elastic orother cord; or the cord may be run in the stitches, or the stitches may be doubled to give the muff the requisite elasticity in this portion.

Such muffs canalso be made by weaving a double fabric in the form of the exterior shape, and then cutting out thehole A. They mayalso be Woven in the manner of weaving hats upon a former, the former being made so that it can be taken apart in small pieces to remove it through the hole A.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As a new article of manufacture, an earmufl' made in one piece, either knitted or woven,,substantia1ly as shown and described.

CHARLES SEDGWIOK.

Witnesses:

GUSTAVE DIETERIOH, TOMPSON BENJAMIN MOSHER. 

